Karren Brady: I absolutely believe in West Ham’s move to London Stadium, and nothing will change our direction

SunSport columnist has no doubts over the Hammers' switch from Upton Park - and says there is no going back anyway

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By KARREN BRADY

7th October 2016, 10:41 pm

Updated: 8th November 2016, 8:10 am

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1

MAN UNITED full-back Luke Shaw wasn’t the first player ever to be publicly criticised by his manager — but James Milner delivers a boot for the other side when he describes Jurgen Klopp as “maybe too emotional”.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2

I expect Gareth Southgate to ignore this on Saturday and it shouldn’t matter much against Malta except that we lost to a bunch of fridges at the Euros.

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Wayne Rooney will seek salvation from his Man Utd troubles when he faces Malta

Rooney has replaced Juan Mata as the man United don’t quite know what to do with and it seems he’s just glad to play anywhere these days.

Well, he’s still a lot better than that but he might have to live with a last half-hour and the odd assist off his knees until Mourinho sticks by his word and uses England’s highest scorer as a front-line forward. Or lets him go.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3

WHAT chance a memorial plaque to Sam Allardyce in his home town, Dudley?

That question strikes me because another footballer born there — the legendary Manchester United player, Duncan Edwards — has just been honoured in that way.

Sam Allardyce has little chance of having a monument built in his honour

And the answer, unless Black Country councillors have a peculiar sense of humour, is a big fat ‘not on your life!’

Allardyce’s reputed £1million pay-off from the FA after what they called “inappropriate behaviour” is disgracefully over-generous — as one of his targets, Gary Neville, points out today.

Allardyce won’t care a damn about that but I suspect he’d have liked a plaque very much indeed.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4

AS sexist insults go, “get back to the stove” is too feeble to prompt a feminist march.

It’s one of a rubbishy pile aimed regularly at women — in this case by Czech players towards a female assistant referee.

It puzzles me there isn’t anything similar from women towards men. The reason perhaps is that men learned in the playground to laugh away stuff like “you fat, ugly, lazy sod”.

And as for informing a ref he knows where he should put his whistle — well, it doesn’t rhyme.

Bosses at Czech team Sparta took another course and punished the players by telling them to train with the women’s team.

But that’s worse, suggesting we are inferior beings who should be used to playing with old dogs.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5

LUNACY is at large . . . and where else but at Fifa, the sumptuous home of strange customs and practices?

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Victor Montagliani has come up with a dubious consolation for World Cup venues

Vice-president Victor Montagliani consoles us that taking the World Cup to dubious Russia and diabolical Qatar led to the exposure (largely by the press) of sundry of football’s godfathers.

So who was scriptwriter? Putin? Montagliani also supports increasing the number of qualifiers, perhaps to as many as 48.

This will absurd figure will be supported by Nicola Sturgeon because it gives Scotland a chance. Just about.